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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: matter transmission and duplication
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 15:32:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 15:32:45 1985
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 >How do you know that your personality DOESN'T die every
 >night, and  get recreated imperfectly from backups in the
 >morning?  Imagine this were really the case; say it had just
 >been discovered, and you read it this morning in Science
 >magazine.  Would it matter?  Would you avoid going to sleep,
 >since it WAS death to do so?  I can't see as how it would
 >make ANY difference, so why should I object to a perfect
 >copy replacing me?  As long as the change over were done
 >gracefully.

If I knew it was happening every night, then my life would have only
been a few hours long and that it would end within hours.  Then dying
probably would not matter much to me.  But if it were the first time I
was dying and being recreated, I would avoid it like death.  Which is
what it is.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper


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